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San Sebastian Film Festival · 2013

San Sebastian Film Festival 2013

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18 films · 4 reviews

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20 Feet From Stardom (Twenty Feet From Stardom)

Review preview for 20 Feet From Stardom

This is great stuff - a fantastic musical documentary.

Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
Backing singers tell their stories.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Morgan Neville; Stars: Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Carole Childs, Mick Jagger, Claudia Linnear, Mable John, Bruce Springsteen, Bette Midler, Judith Hill)

Full review See: A conversation with Morgan Neville on 20 Feet From Stardom , Article about a caroling event for 20 Feet From Stardom

Alexander:The Ultimate Cut

The life of ruler Alexander III of Macedon. This time it's longer.

(Country: US; Year: 2004; Director: Oliver Stone; Writer: Oliver Stone; Stars: Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, Val Kilmer, Jared Leto, Rosario Dawson, Christopher Plummer, Gary Stretch, Connor Paolo, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Tim Pigott-Smith, Raz Degan)

Cutie And The Boxer

Review preview for Cutie And The Boxer

With such a fascinating subject, it's hard for a documentary to go wrong.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
Two fiercely creative artists continue to spar after 40 years spent head over heels in love.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Zachary Heinzerling; Stars: Ushio Shinohara, Noriko Shinohara)

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Cutting Grass (Zela Trovke)

Short documentary about a "Moritat", an ancient Slovakian song telling the tale of a crime.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2012; Director: Asier Altuna)

Family Tour

The director's experiences of returning from abroad. Her mother forces Lili to visit her relatives on a family tour of the abandoned landscape of her childhood as she explores her own frustrations and limits of tolerance with the faults we all inherit.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2012; Director: Liliana Torres; Writer: Liliana Torres; Stars: Núria Gago, Noé Blancafort)

Harmony Lessons (Uroki Garmonii)

A brutally bullied teenager struggles to avoid getting drawn into a cycle of violence.

(Country: Kazakhstan, Germany; Year: 2013; Director: Emir Baigazin; Writer: Emir Baigazin; Stars: Timur Aidarbekov)

Hotzanak, For Your Own safety

Animated short film looks at the effects of control on personal identity thanks to a metaphor on how an individual can turn into a criminal.

(Year: 2013; Director: Izibene Oñederra)

I'm Still (Kachkaniraqmi) (Sigo Siende (Kachkaniraqmi))

In his new documentary, Javier Corcuera shows us characters who are part of a country. Although the film talks about music and musicians, it is not strictly musical but rather a reflection on personal stories apparently very far apart, stories that look for one another in a country also immersed in the struggle to find itself and create its own identity: Peru.

(Country: Peru, Spain; Year: 2012; Director: Javier Corcuera)

The King Of Canfranc (El rey de canfranc)

A documentary centring on the bizarre figure of Albert le Lay, a spy with the French resistance who hid behind the normal appearance of a French customs agent at the Canfranc railway station, strategic passing place for goods travelling between Spain and Germany.

(Director: Manuel Priede González, Jose Antonio Blanco)

New World (Sin-Se-Gae)

Review preview for New World

Achieving a delicate balance between the intersecting worlds of police, criminals and corporations, New World is a breath of fresh air.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
After the untimely death of Korea’s biggest crime syndicate chairman, power struggle between top lieutenants begins.

(Country: South Korea; Year: 2013; Director: Park Hoon-jung; Writer: Park Hoon-jung; Stars: Choi Il-hwa, Choi Min-sik, Hwang Jeong-min)

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Norte, The End Of History (Norte, Hangganan Ng Kasaysayan)

The commission of a crime changes three lives forever.

(Country: Phillipines; Year: 2013; Director: Lav Diaz)

Oliver Stone's Untold History Of The United States

The famous director's take on the complete US history of the 20th Century.

(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Oliver Stone)

Prologue to The Great Desaparecido (Prologo sa ang dakilang Desaparecido)

World premiere of a prologue to Lav Diaz’s most important upcoming feature film, The Great Desaparecido, which questions Truth and History around Philippine Revolution and Independence.

(Year: 2013; Director: Lav Diaz)

Rabbit Woman (Mujer conejo)

Ana, a beautiful young woman of Chinese origin who works as a municipal inspector in Buenos Aires, accidentally becomes involved in the local Chinese mafia. When they threaten her she flees to Argentina's Pampas region, which has been invaded by mutant carnivorous bunnies.

(Country: Spain, Argentina, Venezuela; Year: 2012; Director: Verónica Chen; Writer: Verónica Chen; Stars: Haien Qiu)

Serrat And Sabina: Two For The road (Serrat y Sabina: El símbolo y el cuate)

A documentary tour of Latin America with two like-thinking artists. Joan Manuel Serrat is an icon for an entire generation. Joaquín Sabina is el cuate, the affectionate Mexican word loosely translating as 'brother'.

(Year: 2012; Director: Francesc Relea )

Traffic Department (Drogówka)

Murder shakes things up in a police department with a laissez-faire attitude to bribery.

(Director: Wojtek Smarzowski; Stars: Bart?omiej Topa, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Julia Kijowska, Eryk Lubos, Robert Wabich, Marcin Dorociski, Jacek Braciak)

Violet

A love story that kicks off in Santa Monica (California) when Álex finds an old Polaroid photograph of a girl he falls madly in love with, setting out to find her, despite having no clues as to who she is or when the picture was taken.

(Country: US, Spain; Year: 2012; Director: Luiso Berdejo)